As it does every quarter, the Federal Communications Commission is reviewing the rates that telephone companies must charge and pass off to consumers to cover the Universal Service Fund, which among other things, subsidizes services offered to low-income consumers as well as improvements to schools and libraries.
Telecommunications and technology provider Claro Puerto Rico recently struck an agreement with retailer JCPenney to open point-of-sale kiosks at the Plaza las Américas and Carolina stores.
The arrival of television-via-broadband could happen this quarter, as Puerto Rico Telephone (Claro) had mapped out, after the U.S. District Court dismissed complaint filed by OneLink Communications opposing the manner in which the license to launch the service was granted.
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